Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 20:02:42 +0100 From: Kevin Golding <kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk> To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing gnome2 with XFree86-4 - Why is this so difficilt????? Message-ID: <WMqhADBSVwO9EwfI@caomhin.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1027267150.3d3ada4e19ce0@netmail.pipex.net> References: <1027264013.3d3ace0d2ae43@netmail.pipex.net> <PBz3TBB3MtO9Ews2@caomhin.demon.co.uk> <1027267150.3d3ada4e19ce0@netmail.pipex.net>
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Someone, quite probably , once wrote: >I'm actually running the re-install of XFree86-4 at the moment wihtout having >done a make distclean. Is this the reason why for each component, it fails >with "error: XFree86-4<component> already installed, perhaps an older >version..,"? > >Would it be in my interest then to stop this and restart from the beginning? It sounds like everything wasn't quite removed when you deinstalled. ls /var/db/pkg | grep -i xfree That should show up a few things that might need removing. Else make sure your ports tree is fully up to date and then run: portversion -L = That may show up a few out of date things that could be worth upgrading. portupgrade -rR XFree86-4 The above might resolve a few issues if you are out of date. Else it might be worth thinking about packages this time: pkg_add -r XFree86-4 Will get the latest binary and hopefully get you back to a working state. Then you could probably track X using portupgrade to reduce hassle. Kevin >Quoting Kevin Golding <kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk>: > >> Someone, quite probably Stacey Roberts, once wrote: >> >1] From the *one* reply I've had to my earlier post concerning the >> gnome2 >> >install failure, it appear that I have to re-install XFree86-4.2.0. Why >> is that >> >after running pkg_delete on XFree86-4.0.2, "make" doesn't go out and >> get a >> >fresh set of files for the re-install? >> > >> >Am I missing something about the make process here? Presumably there >> was >> >something wrong with the XFree86-4 sources I got yesterday when I >> installed it, >> >so I would have thought it logical that I should be obtaining a fresh >> set of >> >source files for the new install. >> >> To fetch new sources you need to remove the old ones from >> /usr/ports/distfiles. You can either manually rm each tarball or just >> run "make distclean" before "make". >> >> It can also be worth running "make fetch" as your first step to install >> a port as that simply downloads any files you are missing for that port >> (although not dependencies). >> >> >2] To do the install of XFree86-4 anyways, what I did was pkg_delete of >> XFree86- >> >3 in /var/db/pkg; rm -rf /usr/X11R6/*, then editing /etc/make.conf to >> reflect >> >that the XFree version is now 4 >> >> Since 4.6 I believe the default X has been 4 making such a config >> redundant. It might be worth running through /etc/defaults/make.conf >> and seeing if you need to change anything else. If you're not using 4.6 >> then don't worry about it. >> >> Kevin >> -- >> kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk >> > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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